Most urban to least urban; London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong

[MissionIMPOSSIBRU]

Contrasting two cities that manage considerable density in different ways.

Claude Lelouch's legendary (and for a period of time outlawed) video: "C'était un rendez vous", juxtaposed with a bike ride through Manhattan:

[INsync3]

1. Tokyo
2. NYC
3. HK
4. Paris
5. London

[lerner]

Tokyo is the most East urban.

[OyCrumbler]

Originally Posted by MissionIMPOSSIBRU

Contrasting two cities that manage considerable density in different ways.

Claude Lelouch's legendary (and for a period of time outlawed) video: "C'était un rendez vous", juxtaposed with a bike ride through Manhattan:

That ride through Paris is amazing.

[MissionIMPOSSIBRU]

Originally Posted by OyCrumbler

That ride through Paris is amazing.

Watching it now, I think I'm more appalled at how reckless it is.

[urbanologist]

Hong Kong on steroids
Photo by Michael Wolf , Source: MICHAEL WOLF PHOTOGRAPHY

[Tom Lennox 70]

Originally Posted by Red John

Among these five, which one is the most urban in feeling? Which one is the least urban in feel?

For criteria factor density and transit and things that determine what makes a place more urban than another.

Tokyo
London
Paris
New York
Hong Kong

I put New York and Hong Kong last cause both have very decidedly non-urban portions. In fact I've read that about 70% of the territory of the Hong Kong SAR is undeveloped or rural. There are uninhabited islands, tropical jungles and small villages within the territory of Hong Kong. Victoria and Kowloon are the most photographed portions and that's where the famous skyline is and that's where most movies that take place in Hong Kong like to film.

Conservation in Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This says three quarters of Hong Kong's area is countryside. There is still agriculture in Hong Kong too. I don't think there are rainforests, jungles, and farmland within the city limits of the other cities on this list.

Staten Island, the 3rd largest borough of New York in land area, is very suburban in character, and even some portions of Queens are suburban in character so New York City is not 100% urban. So even assuming all the boroughs are the same size that would mean 20% of the City of New York isn't really that urban. Plus Queens has single family detached homes. Many people forget about the rest of NYC outside of Manhattan.

[Tom Lennox 70]

Regarding the graphs, Manhattan and Kowloon and Victoria are extremely dense which pushes up the "maximum density" of New York and Hong Kong, but both these cities like I mentioned have significant swaths of suburban or undeveloped land within their city limits, Hong Kong especially. Of course the density in certain parts of HK are high because its all concentration there and 75% of the city limits is rural.

[BennyBucks]

Originally Posted by MissionIMPOSSIBRU

Contrasting two cities that manage considerable density in different ways.

Claude Lelouch's legendary (and for a period of time outlawed) video: "C'était un rendez vous", juxtaposed with a bike ride through Manhattan:

Just tragic how many miserably cheap plastic shopfronts there are in Manhattan.

Good thing is it looks much cleaner here than in living memory.